Monday, February 2, 2015

2 February 1941 A.D. 123 Canadian Corvettes—HMCS SACKVILLE & Others

2 February 1941 A.D. 123 Canadian Corvettes—HMCS
SACKVILLE & Others

This
Canadian Naval Memorial is in fact the ‘Soul’ of the Navy. That
‘Soul’ was shaped and imparted to Sackville and to the Navy by the leadership,
spirit and actions of men like Alan Easton, her very successful early captain,
and the ship’s companies that they led. HMCS Sackville is the last of Canada’s
123 corvettes, one of many convoy escort vessels built in Canada and the United
Kingdom during WW II. She is Canada’s oldest fighting warship and has been our
official Naval Memorial since 1985. It is very appropriate that the ship is in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, as this “East Coast Port” was an important assembly point
and destination for convoys during the Battle of the Atlantic.

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Retired. Reformed and Presbyterian by background, but dedicated to the Anglican Prayerbook with degrees from Presbyterian and Episcopal seminaries. Informed by both traditions. Not giving up the 1662 BCP for the Presbyterians and not giving up the Westminster Standards for the Anglicans.